Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box

1929 · 133 min · DE · NR · 7.5 (193 votes)
Dir. G.W. Pabst · Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts
DramaRomanceCrime

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

VIBE

A visually stunning, tragic descent into obsession. This silent spectacle is a decadent, doomed dance of desire and destruction, where beauty and ruin are inextricably intertwined. A haunting, opulent experience.

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